NEW DELHI: The Tripura government has told the Supreme Court that "public spirited" citizens seeking an independent probe into the recent "communal riots" in the state have come with "unclean hands" and that under the garb of public interest, the forum of this court is being used for "oblique" purpose.
Pointing to the petitioner's "silence" on a series of pre-poll and post-poll violence which took place in West Bengal, the Tripura government said the so-called public spirit of the petitioners did not move a few months back on a larger scale of communal violence and suddenly their public sprit aroused due to some instances in a small state like Tripura.
